Floh, thanks for your suggestion about a corrupt media file. Although I couldn’t find any strange icons, I looked at the name of the file that came up during the media search when the system would hang up and give me the error. I found the media file and tried opening it in quicktime player and got an error message too. So, I deleted the file from the media directory, attempted to open the bin, and VOILA! It opened up!
Thanks so much for your expertise and quick response Floh!